24 really cute New Yorkers told BuzzFeed who they first swooned over in the music world. Their answers ranged from Chris Brown to Kim Gordon. So, tell us — who was YOUR first musical heartthrob?
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♪ He’s the greatesssssttttttt ♪
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Generate a meme craft today, before you completely forget about it tomorrow.
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There are thousands of Doctor Who inspired crafts on Etsy alone. Among those, however, are many repeats (every possible variation on the 4th Doctor’s scarves!) and everyday fare. I combed through current offerings to find 15 works (or types of works) that seemed to have that extra imaginative touch.
WarpZone is a wonderful store that makes all sorts of custom cookie cutters - they're printed on a 3D printer, so the designs are always precise! The Doctor Who designs include Weeping Angels, Daleks, Adipose (yay!), Cybermen, K-9, and more!
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Adipose!
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This fun (and detailed) design makes it easy to geek out your walls while retaining an elegant flair. The Art Nouveau style also helps it fit in anywhere - from a college apartment to a more "grown-up" house.
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With a silk-screened TARDIS and stars, classic neckwear is given a whimsical twist.
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The Beatles’ ain’t got SH*T on these lyrical geniuses.
BREAKING: Kim Kardashian shatters Richter scale while using lounge chair.
My family is starving, that's my f*ckin' problem. And I have $100,000 in student loans, I got a f*ckin' problem.
I'm more of a Quentin Tarantin*gga, myself.
THEN WHAT ARE THEY USING????
IS THIS SONG IN ENGLISH???
I'M SCARED.
It’s okay Theon, we all want Ned Stark to be our dad. Made by brilliant Tumblr user it’s not like i like you or anything sweetling.
"I hate my life, these aren't even the colors of Winterfell."
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"I wish I could just throw you away."
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"I would literally rather be beheaded by one of those asshole Lannisters."
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"I can get away with pushing him in, weird things happen beyond the wall right?"
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The woman is a fashion genius and there’s no two ways about it.
Think Paris Hilton (whose stuff probably sells mostly overseas, maybe because she's more tolerable to those who don't speak English as a first language). Or Natalia Vodianova, who did a lingerie line for a store called Etam. Or Lauren Conrad, who... what does she even do anymore? Exist? Yeah, Rihanna's "busier" than all of them, I think most people would say.
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This is incredibly admirable in a celebrity designer. Adam Selman, who designs the line with her, always speaks to reporters doing stories on the line and is given credit for his work. He even appeared with Rihanna at her fashion show. This is a lot different from other celebrity designers (coughVictoria Beckhamcough) who you know don't really design their lines but pretend like they do. In describing the Olsens twins' design methods once, a designer who interviewed to work with them once told me, "They say things like, 'we're really inspired by this ashtray,' and then you have to make clothes based on that.'" But those people don't do press with the Olsens.
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Well played, Jarron.
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You know Megan Fox is hot, but did you know she’s also terrifying ? In honor of her birthday, here’s a celebration of her best (and scariest) role.
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NSFW: Some people are really great at having sex with no one.
Sex with yourself. And the air. It's Air Sex, folks, and it's a real thing. (No judgments! Everyone has a skill, and sex with no one is one of those.)
Air Sex has gotten so popular, that this year marks the fifth season of the Air Sex World Championships. That's right, Air Sexers from around the country compete, and are judged harshly by how hard they thrust.
Let's take a look at some former Air Sex World Championship moves to see what we can learn...
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We said goodbye to our old friends at Dunder Mifflin . And it was perfect.
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Note: Spoilers abound below
The beauty of The Office was that, in its heyday, it was a projection of our own lives, the banality of spending every single day in a cubicle going through the motions of a job whose value begins and ends with the paycheck. The listlessness, the awkward moments with the clueless boss, the watercooler romances, the little jokes that get you through the day.
The Office was supposed to go on for decades, in theory; even knowing that it had to one day go off the air, it was hard to imagine the crew at Dunder Mifflin working anywhere other than the mid-sized paper company in Scranton. Jim would always be pranking Dwight, Michael (and then, Andy) would always be the clueless manager, Kevin would always be sitting in the back and living in his own strange little world. But instead of the long-running series ending with a simple clockout, it all came apart, the office ending as The Office ended, too.
It wasn't a bad thing, of course; this was, after all, a TV show, and finality is important, especially when it comes to a series that got its hooks so deep into fans' hearts. But still:
Would you have ever expected Jim to be the best man at Dwight's wedding? Or for him to be genuinely kind and generous in performing the intimate duties entrusted to him by the guy whose stapler he suspended in jello in the very first episode?
After all the drama, did it seem possible for Pam and Jim to ever leave Scranton?
Can you imagine Kevin not only no longer working at Dunder Mifflin, but owning his own bar?
Stanley, retired to a shack in Florida?
How about Michael Scott, back in Scranton, showing photos of his children?
Probably not. But whether or not the show overstayed its welcome by a few seasons, the ultimate endings felt right. There was the meta ending, of course, with the airing of the documentary that was being "filmed" throughout the entire series. But there was something more to it than that: they survived the common drudgery that drew us to them in the first place.
And even if we all return to our own offices on Friday, it's nice to know that the characters for whom we rooted (and often laughed at) over the last nine years made it out, finding happiness beyond the momentary relief of the break room.
In 1933, Fitzgerald wrote an adorable letter to his daughter, who was away at camp. In it, he provided the secret to happiness.
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August 8, 1933
Dear Pie:
I feel very strongly about you doing duty. Would you give me a little more documentation about your reading in French? I am glad you are happy — but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed pages, they never really happen to you in life.
All I believe in in life is the rewards for virtue (according to your talents) and the punishments for not fulfilling your duties, which are doubly costly. If there is such a volume in the camp library, will you ask Mrs. Tyson to let you look up a sonnet of Shakespeare's in which the line occurs "Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
Have had no thoughts today, life seems composed of getting up a Saturday Evening Post story. I think of you, and always pleasantly; but if you call me "Pappy" again I am going to take the White Cat out and beat his bottom hard, six times for every time you are impertinent. Do you react to that?
I will arrange the camp bill.
Halfwit, I will conclude.
Things to worry about:
Worry about courage
Worry about Cleanliness
Worry about efficiency
Worry about horsemanship
Worry about. . .
Things not to worry about:
Don't worry about popular opinion
Don't worry about dolls
Don't worry about the past
Don't worry about the future
Don't worry about growing up
Don't worry about anybody getting ahead of you
Don't worry about triumph
Don't worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault
Don't worry about mosquitoes
Don't worry about flies
Don't worry about insects in general
Don't worry about parents
Don't worry about boys
Don't worry about disappointments
Don't worry about pleasures
Don't worry about satisfactions
Both so wise.
Can you even keep count?
I lost count at 10. Which was almost immediately. How long could you count for?
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The Queen of Soul sure seemed to know the results.
Aretha Franklin performs during McDonald's Gospelfest 2013 in Newark, N.J. on Saturday, May 11, 2013.
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LOS ANGELES — Aretha Franklin may be the Queen of Soul, but she's also seemingly clairvoyant.
Appearing via satellite from New York on the season finale of American Idol, Franklin appeared to spoil whether Candice Glover or Kree Harrison had won the 12th season of the long-running reality competition series.
"Candice, you're a winner," Franklin said from a giant screen in the Nokia Theater.
After a pause, Franklin added, "Win or lose — you're a winner," but the moment was awkward enough that host Ryan Seacrest felt compelled to ask Franklin if she had the results. "I do," Franklin answered, "but I won't tell you."
To be clear: A Fox rep tells BuzzFeed that Franklin "did not know the results." But after Glover, Harrison, and the other female contestants sang backup while Franklin went through a medley of her best hits — and former Idol judge Jennifer Lopez performed with Pitbull — Seacrest did end up crowning Candice Glover the winner.
It remains unclear why Franklin would say she knew the results if she did not actually have that information. But the 23-year-old Glover was the favorite to win the season, so Franklin could have just felt like she knew what many others also expected would happen.
For her part, Glover couldn't even comprehend Franklin knew who she was. "I couldn't understand that Aretha knew my name," she told press backstage after the show when asked what it felt like to have Franklin call her a winner. "Oh my gosh, that just felt great."
Tiger Woods, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, or Donald Trump? Look at the facts.
This unique business campaign via Forbes in Brazil just won a Gold CLIO Award here in New York City, last night.
I think the choice is pretty clear.
Ad agency: at Ogilvy, São Paulo.
UPDATED: No offense to Kree, Angie, and the rest of the contestants, but Candice is simply in another league from everyone else. And that includes the judges.
American Idol contestant Candice Glover is greeted by fans duriong her hometown visit in St. Helena Island, S.C.
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NOTE: Do not read if you don't want tonight's American Idol results spoiled!
Save for one shining bright spot this season, these have been dark days for American Idol fans.
As the shows ratings keep hitting record lows, the judges have managed to become the hot mess sideshow we all feared/hoped they'd become — but instead of juicy, trashy fun, it's largely been a tedious bore, a lose-lose game of deciding which self-serving diva, Nicki, Mariah, or Randy, to dislike the least. (Poor Keith Urban, stranded like a hunky country music superstar in a den of high-strung poodles.) Whatever goodwill these judges started with at the beginning of the season has been frittered away by their behavior since the live shows began. It's no wonder there are reports Fox wants to eighty-six the lot of 'em, and Randy just left the show outright.
As for the contestants, it has been refreshing to watch several talented women battle it out without having to contend with a totes adorbs white man with a guitar syphoning away all the tween girl votes. Getting to that point, however, meant slogging through five weeks' worth of non-guitar-playing male contestants who were so self-evidently inferior to their female counterparts that one wondered why the Idol producers didn't just do away with the pretense of gender parity in the first place and make it an all-female season. (It hasn't helped that those producers' insistence on musty theme nights have forced powerfully irrelevant song choices like "For Once in My Life," "Lately," "Shop Around," "(They Long to Be) Close to You," "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," and "MacArthur Park." I say again: "MacAurthur Park".)
When you're in the 12th season of a show, however, even solid singers will inevitably fall into well-trod Idol archetypes: The over-eager perfectionist who tries too hard (Angie Miller); the "commercial" beauty who can't quite live up to the hype (Amber Holcomb); the aw-shucks southern country girl who can't quite capture "America's heart" (Janelle Arthur); and the fabulous singer who feels too mature (read: too serious) to go all the way (Kree Harrison). As lovely and talented as these women all are, on Idol they're retreads of contestants we've seen time and time again. We can cite their "Idol journeys" by rote.
There is one contestant, however, who has stood apart, delivering so many show-stopping performances that she has pushed well past easy categorization and elevated the show into watchability. I am speaking of Candice Glover, who was just crowned the winner of the 12th season of American Idol. There really was no one else who should have won.
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If you've been watching Idol this year, you already know what I'm talking about. But if you haven't, just know that as a reality show contestant, this 23 year old is humble and genuine and terrifically non-obnoxious. Watching her wobbly sob through her winning single "I Am Beautiful" was a great coda to a terrific trajectory on this otherwise, er, wobbly season.
That final vocal aside, as a performer, Candice is in a league of her own. But don't take my word for it. Check out these 12 performances over the course of Candice's time on Idol to understand why she's not only the frontrunner to win, she's basically the only reason to watch at all.
For starters, always leave a note.
Well I don't know what I expected. From Craftster.
Matt De Lanoy built this epic house.
Directions on Popcrafty.
AD lends itself well to cross-stitch. On Craftster.
SPOILER ALERT: I honestly don’t know how I’m still alive.
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Blasphemy? Yes, but also all sorts of amazing.
While the video may be blasphemous to hardcore Beatles fans, there is an actual connection between “Setting Sun” and the band.
The Chemical Brothers have stated that the classic Beatles track "Tomorrow Never Knows" is their "manifesto" and that "Setting Sun" (which features Oasis' Noel Gallagher on vocals) is a tribute to it.
When “Setting Sun” was released in 1996 the song immediately hit No. 1 on the UK charts. At the time many people assumed the track had sampled “Tomorrow…,” the three surviving Beatles even took legal action against The Chemical Brothers and Virgin Records for copyright infringement, accusing the band of sampling the original - in particular a portion of the drum loop.
The case was dismissed, The Chemical Brothers proved they had independently created their own drum loop.
